色

#970 by frequency

shǎi

(coll.) color; used in 色子[shai3 zi5]

sè

color; CL:種|种[zhong3]; look; appearance; sex

Measure word: 种 (zhong3)

Examples

天色已晚。

It was already very late.

我最喜欢红色。

My favourite colour is red.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.